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Show ittiiKmni; miti It i: a common thing for ministers eliewhere to dlicuas In tha pulpit maasurea of reform for the muulcltall-llae muulcltall-llae In whlota they dwell, albell by ao doing they asa soma revere ttrlcfurra on ona er another of Ik political I arllre. Frniuenlly a great amount t f good la accomplished In Hals way, since by II la awakened Ih bet Is r element of cilltensblp -uinaliy religious re-ligious to Ink an relive pirt In Ih needed Improvements. Kaalsrn cities have ei.erlettced eonsidcrahle irfinefll recently from Ibla aourea, and ,",ulte a number if Ih mlnlstere or Hsu Kranclsoo sesm determined to have tbel metropolie fall Into line. I. sat Hunday, In ssvrral of Ih leading chttrcbas, Hi topic waa treated upon lu lb Aral of proposed serlea of sermons. ser-mons. Au Illustration ollbellneof work followed may t bad In Ihe fol lowing excerpt from Iheaudreasul He v. Wiillsm Kauer, of Ibe Third Congregational Congre-gational church; beaoli.': The ra IcmpMon of a citv starla with self-rewpea-i. When l-an Kra'nmst-n ceaaa-s laa hoaat ol Its cllniain ami na oral ad-vutalaiiM ad-vutalaiiM and points to Ihe nnraintHoue sytntM.lof Inca, -.adt-Kota-rnmeut am the . lie hail iloio It will l.e a sign or her ra-ih'lnpltnta. ra-ih'lnpltnta. ha-lf-reafiaaa't Is a netil el. iii.u. of the moral lltueas rr :i.. rarii-is rarii-is uioro ihsta the landf-a'. Theroregotni Plea may ha giveu very broad apllaaallon, especially In placia that waot lo b tnoulil well ol so that an In fun population white ona reault : oelng looked on with favor. Than elites thai desire lo gain and raisin this advantage can do so more rsalily on the practl rwl Illustration they glv of good, oo-uomlcal oo-uomlcal government than by tbelr bortata of superiority of ollmat and natural looatlon. II Ibay have both, they oaunot fall of success, but If either must b dispensed with, desirable desir-able Immigration prefer to ally Itself It-self with good government. Hum cities lhal now have lha advantage of ollmat should have an overturning to scour lb olhsr, through redeni-tlon redeni-tlon from po lllcal bnaaiem. |
